China also presented Albania with a powerful radio transmission station from which Tirana sang the praises of Joseph Stalin, Enver Hoxha, and Mao Zedong for decades.
Even while the United States, which had closed its mission to Albania in 1946, was being vilified by communist propaganda during the regime of Enver Hoxha, ordinary Albanians remembered that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson had interceded on behalf of Albanian independence from 1919 to 1920, strongly arguing against a proposed partition of Albania by the Paris Peace Conference and subsequently enabling Albania to achieve statehood and international recognition by the League of Nations.
From the 1960s onwards, nations friendly to the PRC, led by the People's Republic of Albania under Enver Hoxha, moved an annual resolution in the General Assembly to expel the "representatives of Chiang Kai-shek" (an implicit reference to the ROC) and permit the PRC to represent China at the UN.
In the 2006 film, Inside Man, bank robbers foil police attempts to eavesdrop by playing an Enver Hoxha speech near surveillance devices.
The museum is erected on the site of communist dictator Enver Hoxha's birth, and offers an insight into the traditional lifestyle in the town.
Following his retirement he received a letter from Albania's Stalinst dictator Enver Hoxha along with a pair of shorts, which the player himself found to be a humourus act on the state's behalf.
International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle): A grouping of parties and organizations that uphold the line of Enver Hoxha and the Albanian Party of Labour.
Enver Hoxha, Communist dictator of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985
Enver Hoxha | Enver Mamedov (right) presents the ''USSR'' magazine on the CBS | Enver Hadžiabdić | Enver Hadri |
Unknown in the times of Tintin were later strong leaders from the same area: Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania, Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria and Enver Hoxha of Albania.
Enver Hoxha, in his memoirs about his first meeting with Joseph Stalin, wrote that the whole affair was concocted by the British as an excuse for military intervention at the town of Saranda.
Several future communist party and government luminaries were educated in the foreign schools: Enver Hoxha graduated from the National Lycée in 1930, and Mehmet Shehu, who would become prime minister, completed studies at the American Vocational School in 1932.
French lycées in Korçë and Gjirokastër operated during the communist era, because long-time leader of Communist Albania, Enver Hoxha studied in the University of Montpellier in France and upon his rise to power allowed their activity.
Malëshova had emerged as a moderate communist, often inviting publications without regard to their ideological content, which brought him the wrath of Enver Hoxha, particularly after an appeal by the Writers League to Harry Truman and Clement Attlee for Western recognition of Albania.